Monthly Archive: August 2014

Your attitude to life defines you in many ways. We remember the bad times in much greater detail than the good times–fact. The struggle, if there is one, if you choose one, is about getting it right, because if you get it right the first time, then you’re the winner […]

Be ravenous! Doing art requires that I not be a spectator, watching the thick , black residue of quiet effort drip from my uncallused hands, but a warrior, wielding saber on the field of battle, on the field of discovery […]

If there is a theme for this issue of Speaking On Art I think it would be one of “process”. Process comes in different forms. There is a process that allows one art movement to flow into a variation of it’s self or into something seemingly new. Process is also to art what meditation is to Buddhism […]

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